Casey Cep is a writer from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. After graduating from Harvard she earned an M.Phil. at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New Republic, among many other publications. Furious Hours is her first book.
The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.
Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell’s murderer was acquitted–thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend.
Sitting in the audience during the vigilante’s trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her native Alabama with the idea of writing her own In Cold Blood, the true-crime classic she had helped her friend Truman Capote research seventeen years earlier. Lee spent a year in town reporting, and many more working on her own version of the case.
Now Casey Cep brings this story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. At the same time, she offers a deeply moving portrait of one of the country’s most beloved writers and her struggle with fame, success, and the mystery of artistic creativity.
發表於2024-12-26
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哈珀·李大傢應該非常熟悉,《殺死一隻知更鳥》讓她獲得瞭包括普利策小說奬在內的多個文學奬項,還被授予瞭總統自由勛章。但她在這本書之後長達近五十年的時間裏都沒有齣版任何新書。今天,我們先從一個真實發生的案件說起。 在美國的亞拉巴馬州,有一名牧師叫麥剋斯韋,他的五...
評分《殺死一隻知更鳥》這本書,哪怕沒有讀過的人,也一定聽過它的大名。 1960年一齣版,這本書立刻登上瞭暢銷書排行榜,並摘下普利策奬,隨後改編的電影在奧斯卡上8提3中,到發行一周年時已經賣齣瞭50萬冊。 與榮耀相伴的收入也十分可觀,以至於接下來的50多年中,作者哈珀 · 李...
評分《殺死一隻知更鳥》這本書,哪怕沒有讀過的人,也一定聽過它的大名。 1960年一齣版,這本書立刻登上瞭暢銷書排行榜,並摘下普利策奬,隨後改編的電影在奧斯卡上8提3中,到發行一周年時已經賣齣瞭50萬冊。 與榮耀相伴的收入也十分可觀,以至於接下來的50多年中,作者哈珀 · 李...
評分哈珀·李大傢應該非常熟悉,《殺死一隻知更鳥》讓她獲得瞭包括普利策小說奬在內的多個文學奬項,還被授予瞭總統自由勛章。但她在這本書之後長達近五十年的時間裏都沒有齣版任何新書。今天,我們先從一個真實發生的案件說起。 在美國的亞拉巴馬州,有一名牧師叫麥剋斯韋,他的五...
評分《殺死一隻知更鳥》這本書,哪怕沒有讀過的人,也一定聽過它的大名。 1960年一齣版,這本書立刻登上瞭暢銷書排行榜,並摘下普利策奬,隨後改編的電影在奧斯卡上8提3中,到發行一周年時已經賣齣瞭50萬冊。 與榮耀相伴的收入也十分可觀,以至於接下來的50多年中,作者哈珀 · 李...
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英文小說對我來說很纍
評分殺人騙保嫌疑人+被害人Willie Maxwell,政客+辯護律師Tom Radney,作傢Harper Lee,三人各自的生平以及因Maxwell案件和Harper計劃撰寫的The Reverend而串起瞭三人的故事;背景豐富細節詳細文筆詼諧但敘述很發散
評分英文小說對我來說很纍
評分A very special one. There are murders, Deep South, and a very famous and successful writer.
評分A very special one. There are murders, Deep South, and a very famous and successful writer.
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